Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solution of diethylamine (a volatile liquid used in processes like vulcanizing). The two batches, cooled to freezing and stirred together, result in a solution that contains LSD. The trick is to extract the LSD from the solution. This can be done with the help of chloroform, benzine, a vacuum evaporator or steam bath, and a glass gadget known as a chromatographic column (available in any chemistry supply shop...
Swiveling his shoulders and hips, Cernan inched cautiously around the craft and tried to familiarize himself with the strange dynamics of the umbilical cord in the vacuum of space. At one point, the cord wrapped itself around him. "The snake's all over me!" shouted the surprised astronaut. For still unexplained reasons, Cernan-like Ed White before him-had to struggle constantly against a tendency to soar above the spacecraft at the end of his cord...
Under the present system, with no responsible officials and no clear ilnes of authority within the District government, there exists a power vacuum. The Board of Trade (or, more precisely, the board of directors of the Board of Trade) moved into this vacuum happily...
...seemed logical to start a press in Cambridge, where there are commercial and academic publishing houses, but whose function is not to be artistically daring." Robinson explained. Identity Press hopes to fill is the vacuum with serious, non-academic, non-commercial writing, he continued...
...alternate theory were true, Layzer said, the intensity of microwave radiation at 300 billon cycles per second should be relatively high. His own concept predicts a much smaller amount. A number of scientists at M.I.T. are presently designing a rocket to measure this energy in the vacuum of space and settle the controversy